The saga surrounding SOPA will be dominating the headlines for a while yet, and today is no different. First of all, and most importantly, the European Parliament has adopted a resolution against SOPA, while also calling for net neutrality to become part of EU law. Second, and this is also interesting, we now have a list of software companies which are against freedom of speech on the web. Unsurprisingly, Apple and Microsoft are on this list. Update: House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi has spoken out against SOPA. Update II: Tumbler's anti-SOPA message on their website generated almost 90000 (!) phone calls to representatives. Amazing.

It's not censorship - looking over your posts in this thread, it seems more like marking down trash (which is otherwise perfectly available, if somebody's into it), to help those who mostly would just glance over discussion. Those who usually don't want to spare much time on comments, for example - so it's better for them to have greater chance of stumbling on something potentially valuable.

Something not like your comments in this thread - in which, for example, it seems you either troll or just don't have the faintest idea how much of "American" film, music, or games industry is in hands of overseas interests, also European. Or how much of it is European (easy to miss, there are quite a few big European productions of all kinds with EN as a working language just to broaden the potential public, even when made by entities outside EN-speaking places) - like that legendary "something so envelope-pushing like Crysis could be only done by Americans!" idiot.